GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q vs Radeon R7 260

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking531not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.74no data
Power efficiency5.41no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameBonaireTU116
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date17 December 2013 (11 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$109 $229

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768no data
Core clock speedno data1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1335 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Wattno data
Texture fill rate48.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.536 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs48no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1625 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth104 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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HDMI++
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1212.0 (12_1)
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Max-Q has a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 260 and GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 260 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 260
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q
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